Platypus perrisi N Chapuis, 1865

Nel, Wilma J., Duong, Tuan A., Fell, Shawn, Herron, Darryl A., Paap, Trudy, Wingfield, Michael J., Beer, Wilhelm De, Hulcr, Jiri & Johnson, Andrew J., 2025, A checklist of South African bark and ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae, Platypodinae), Zootaxa 5648 (1), pp. 1-101 : 26

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5648.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:5A53B655-D261-4DFA-8AA7-6CA6E4DEF685
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15821259
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A087E4-742D-C923-FF37-85C9C1B5FC57
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Platypus perrisi N Chapuis, 1865
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15. Platypus perrisi N Chapuis, 1865 View in CoL

Hosts: Anthoshorea roxburghii (= Shorea robusta )

Distribution in South Africa: Eastern Cape

New record: Uitenhage, Eastern Cape, South Africa, 06 December 1960, Leg. C. Crossor, Ac. X. 1189, Det. K.E. Schedl [ SANC] .

Notes: Platypus perrisi is an ambrosia beetle known primarily from Asia. This study appears to represent the first official report of Platypus perrisi from the African continent ( Wood & Bright 1992). However, as this specimen was identified by Schedl, its identification should be treated with some scrutiny until it can be verified.